Strange, Sinister Italian Sci-Fi Film ‘The Complex Forms’ Official Trailer
by Alex Billington
March 4, 2024
Source: YouTube
“Are there any risks of brain damage?” Metronic Films has unveiled an official trailer for an indie sci-fi film from Italy titled The Complex Forms, marking the feature directorial debut of up-and-coming filmmaker Fabio D’Orta. This first premiered at the 2023 Torino Film Festival, before playing at the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival in Utah in January. It’s playing at Fantasporto 2024 in Portugal next this month. Thanks to Screen Anarchy, there’s a trailer out for it and it’s worth a look. This strange, peculiar fantasy sci-fi drama is about an ancient villa where people have the opportunity to go “solve their fate” by selling their bodies to a mysterious entity. The director explains that “the film that is both sober and excessive, where the sobriety and austerity of the unity of space coexist with the wonder and fantasy coming from an elsewhere, which has always been there, beyond the threshold of our perception.” Starring David Richard White, Michele Venni, Cesare Bonomelli, & Enzo Solazzi. Looks like some philosophical sci-fi with a gnarly monster.
Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for Fabio D’Orta’s The Complex Forms, from YouTube (via SA):
“The Complex Forms tells of an existential limbo, experienced in an elegant twentieth century villa, where our protagonists are waiting for something and, as happens in life, they don’t even know what’s coming. However, an encounter occurs, an encounter that is a phantasmagoria, where cyclopean and majestic creatures, resonating with precious jewels and coming from places as ancient as time, put us face to face with the fact that in this world we are only evanescent guests.” –Director Fabio D’Orta
There is an ancient villa where desperate people have the opportunity to solve their fate by selling their body to a mysterious entity in exchange for money. When enormous, centuries-old creatures emerge from the deep woods surrounding the villa, a series of strange and sinister events push three unlikely guests to band together to attempt a desperate escape. The Complex Forms is both written and directed by Italian filmmaker Fabio D’Orta, making his feature directorial debut with this project, after studying at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, building sets and other industry work. Produced by Fabio D’orta, Mariangela Bombardieri & Mariacristina Bombardieri. Featuring music by Riccardo Amorese. This is premiering at the Fantasporto 2024 Film Festival in Portugal this month, after also playing at Slamdance 2024. Produced by Metronic Films. No release dates are set yet – stay tuned for news. For more info, visit the film’s official site.
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